The Freedom Tower

Seven World Trade Center has been standing finished but empty for months with only one prospective tenant until a month ago … now there are several prospective occupants, including a Chinese real estate developer.
“It has been standing silently for over a year, lurking like a giant in the shadows, visibly elusive and often indistinguishable from the clear blue sky behind it. The glass façade of Seven World Trade Center was complete several months ago, marking the end of external growth and the inception of a furious internal incubation period that will culminate in the development of the first 42 tenant floors to reopen at Ground Zero,” says Project Rebirth.
A flurry of publicity may have sparked a renewed interest in occupying the building.
“Like other World Trade Center buildings to come, Seven World Trade Center is situated atop a budding transportation epicenter, which will mark the crossroads of New York City and New Jersey rail transit networks. Pedestrian corridors will reunite the financial district with TriBeCa (the “Triangle Below Canal Street”), its long lost neighbor to the north and which sits at the doorstep of the new tower,” Project Rebirth said.
In addition to being the first building completed, 7 World Trade will serve as a model for many state-of-the-art engineering technologies to be used throughout the rebuilding project, including:
Extra-strong fireproofing
Biological and chemical filters in the air supply system
Concrete-encased stair and elevator cores
Extra-wide, pressurized stairs
Low-level emergency lighting
Concrete protection for sprinklers Interconnected exits
Direct exit to the street from tower stairs
Structurally reinforced columns
Blast-resistant glazing